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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 7397681" data-attributes="member: 82106">PbtA (at least DW, which is the only one I've really played/run) is interesting in that it has COMPELLED backstory. The players have 2 moves, (sometimes others, but everyone has at least these 2) Spout Lore and Discern Realities, which literally COMPEL the GM to construct backstory on the spot. There is also, importantly NO move which allows a player to spontaneously generate backstory (although there are some moves which create 'invitations' to do so, Spout Lore for instance allows the GM to demand backstory explaining how the PC knows the facts the GM just produced!). Players can make moves which introduce new facts into the fiction however. Its a bit of an open question with DW if you could for instance state &quot;I swing down to the ground on a rope.&quot; (inventing the rope in the process) but most detailed discussions I've had with PbtA GMs indicate that there are reasons to assume this is the case, at least in some situations (Defy Danger is the usual example).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 7397681, member: 82106"] PbtA (at least DW, which is the only one I've really played/run) is interesting in that it has COMPELLED backstory. The players have 2 moves, (sometimes others, but everyone has at least these 2) Spout Lore and Discern Realities, which literally COMPEL the GM to construct backstory on the spot. There is also, importantly NO move which allows a player to spontaneously generate backstory (although there are some moves which create 'invitations' to do so, Spout Lore for instance allows the GM to demand backstory explaining how the PC knows the facts the GM just produced!). Players can make moves which introduce new facts into the fiction however. Its a bit of an open question with DW if you could for instance state "I swing down to the ground on a rope." (inventing the rope in the process) but most detailed discussions I've had with PbtA GMs indicate that there are reasons to assume this is the case, at least in some situations (Defy Danger is the usual example). [/QUOTE]

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